On stage again this Sunday afternoon, May 12, it has all the earmarks of a season finale: a flashy violin concerto, an audience favorite soloist, a huge work for orchestra, chorus, and four soloists ...

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians live in Jerusalem, but those outside the city can't get there without hard-to-get permits, restrictions Israel says are necessary for security. One group found a ...

When Kamini Sehrawat and Prof. Israel Nelken of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem exposed baby mice to the first movement of ...

Ludwig van Beethoven's ninth and final symphony took orchestral music in thrilling new directions when it debuted in 1824. It lasts more than an hour. Its climax calls for a full choir singing poet ...

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 opens with a crush of percussion and brass. It’s beautiful and shocking and brilliant and dramatic, and everything that you would expect from Beethoven. When the Tucson ...

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Beethoven's epic Ninth Symphony has long been a traditional fan favorite at the Tanglewood Music Festival. Since 1997, it's ended every season but one at the Boston Symphony Orchestra's summer home in ...

“Hogmanay” sounds like an unwieldy, less-than-lovely word, but it’s music to Spokane Symphony conductor James Lowe’s ears. When Lowe isn’t living and working in Spokane, home is in Scotland, where ...

The Aspen Festival Orchestra will open its 2021 summer season with a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, the Aspen Music Festival and School announced on Monday. While the rest of the ...

TOKYO – Concerts featuring Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 are a popular year-end cultural event in Japan. But for Toshihide Koroyasu, a vocalist and specially appointed professor at Naruto University of ...

Ludwig van Beethoven is considered to be a genius of orchestral composition. Was he equally good at composing for singers? Well, some think that even geniuses have limitations. “He wrote very ...